The iPlant Collaborative Community Cyberinfrastructure for Life Science Tools and Services Workshop Objectives

Broad objectives we hope to enable Be able to upload/download/share any dataset ( MB, GB, TB / ’s files) Run bioinformatics application with or without the command line Be able to create simple workflows and integrate new tools Get started with large data projects – RNA-Seq, Genome Assembly/annotation Use cloud computing to operate in a powerful restriction free environment

“I had the feeling I have been exposed to many bioinformatics tools but I would be unable to use any of them on my own.” The limitations of any training workshop

Some suggestions

1. Know what type of user you are (or want to be)

2. Look for what’s important to your research Ability to access and manage data Software to analyze data Computing resources Skills and help to use software and interpret results Metadata management Ability to share data and workflows Open source sustainable tools High-performance and scalable computing Ability automate and collaborate Funding spent on science, not software or hardware Increase Productivity Ensure Reproducibility Get Science Done

3. Keep asking questions If iPlant can, we’ll help show you how… If iPlant can’t we’ll find the path that gets you what you need Don’t hesitate to ask “Can iPlant do this?” Keep asking at ask.iplantcollabortive.org